Syracuse.com - Jamesville hunter tells story of his 23-point buck

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"I just kept on saying, 'Oh my God. Oh my God," he said. "It was the best thing I've ever seen, except when my sons were born. They were both good feelings."

 

Tom Sheridan said when he first came to the 23-point buck he shot this fall, he couldn't believe his eyes.

"I just kept on saying, 'Oh my God. Oh my God,' " he said. "It was the best thing I've ever seen -- except when my sons were born. They were both good feelings."

Sheridan, of Jamesville, was recently informed his buck's antlers had been officially scored at 184 3/8 inches - making it one of the top 60 largest non-typical deer ever taken by a hunter in this state, according to the New York Big Buck Club record book.

Ron Evans, one of the club's official scorers, said it was a "gross, non-typical 210 inches," but he settled on the lower score after adding in deductions under the Boone and Crockett scoring system.

"This is exceptionally big for this state," he said.

Sheridan said he shot the deer on Nov. 18 with his Remington 11-87 shotgun on his property in Jamesville while walking toward his tree stand.

"It was high wind advisory day. I never made it to the tree stand. He couldn't smell or hear me. It was at about 4 p.m. and he was trying to find a place to bed down," he said.

After he shot it, he ran back to his house to get his son to help him drag it and they put it on a four-wheeler to take it out of the woods.

"This guy was a monster," Sheridan said. "He weighed 210 pounds after being gutted."

Sheridan, 51, said he's been hunting for 20-plus years and his share of bucks

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"But nothing like this," he said. "When I first saw its antlers in the brush, I thought it was my friends playing a game with me."

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